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Wednesday, May 18, 2016

#Excerpt: SIMPLY THE BEST: A Collection of International Digital Award Winning Romances

Excerpt: From Angel’s Assassin by
Laurel O’Donnell

“Damien,” she called.

He hesitated.He didn’t
want her to fear him.Would she
condemn him now for his violence?The silence stretched.Finally, he turned to her and his breath caught in his throat.

She stood in middle of the forest, bathed in a pool of moonlight.Her blonde hair, loose from any
constraints, fell to her waist in thick waves.Her back was straight, her tiny body alluring and curvy and
delectable.But it was her eyes
that captured his attention.He
saw no fear in her eyes.It was
concern.Had he mistaken fear for
concern?

Damien had never felt such an overwhelming need for anything in his
life.He trembled with his want of
her.

A swirl of emotions played over her face.Concern, regret, helplessness.

It took all Damien’s willpower not to go to her and sweep her into his
embrace.He didn’t want to scare
her.He didn’t want to harm her.He didn’t want to taint her.

“I will never leave you,” she finally confessed and tears entered her
eyes.

Damien came toward her then, like a tumultuous storm cloud.“You don’t know what you are saying,”
he warned in a savage whisper.

Aurora did not run for cover; she did not shrink from his approach.She stared up into his face with those
damned clear orbs.And for the
briefest of moments, Damien saw himself reflected as she saw him.A hero, a good man.A man worthy of all he could attain.

He stood before her, stunned.

The sound of horses thundering through the clearing pounded a warning
through the ground.

Damien grabbed Aurora’s hand in one hand, and drew his sword in the
other.He watched the group of men
approach through the forest, clumsily maneuvering their steeds through the
tight trees.He pulled Aurora
behind him.

These men were no brigands.They wore heraldry, and while Damien couldn’t be sure, he suspected they
were from Acquitaine.

As they drew closer, his suspicions were confirmed.One of them called out, “Lady Aurora!”

Damien refused to relinquish her.For just one moment, she had been his.And it had been the most glorious moment of his life.

BLURB:

This collection of multi-genre romances features winning novels from the
International Digital Awards, including historical, suspense/thriller, short
historical, contemporary, paranormal, and young adult. Simply the Best of all
worlds!

Haunted by Death ~ Dale Mayer

Death
haunts anthropologist Meg Pearce…

In her
last summer before college, an innocent camping trip ended in a friend’s
disappearance…and destroyed her life.

Angel’s Assassin ~ Laurel O’Donnell

When
Damien enters Aurora’s life, tempting her with promises of dark passion and
forbidden lust, he threatens to tear her peaceful world apart with shadowy
secrets of his own.

Be Mine This Christmas Night ~ L. A. Sartor

At
Christmas, finding love and a family seems even more possible…unless you’re
keeping a secret.

A Hunter 4 Rescue ~ Cynthia Clement

Worlds
Apart. Joined by Love

A unit of
elite alien warriors, known as Hunters, crash lands on earth and their leader
is torn between getting his men to safety or protecting the human woman he has
bonded with.

The Fine Art of Keeping Quiet ~ Charity
Tahmaseb

Sometimes
staying silent is the biggest lie of all

No one
expects the girl who has mastered the art of keeping quiet to join the speech
team. But Jolia does. When a crush-worthy rival offers to coach her in secret,
she can't say no. But secrets have a price, and this one might cost Jolia
everything.

The Mapmaker’s Wife ~ Kathy L Wheeler

In the
midst of his worn-torn country, love posed the greater danger.

A
flippant proposal and an attack on her person finds one young woman married to
the mapmaker who only needs someone to take control of his ungovernable child.
Feelings quickly shift into something less platonic and when the enemy gains
vital secrets, her suspicions land her in jail.

Dale Mayer is a USA Today
bestselling author known for her page turning plotlines and heartwarming
characters. A prolific writer, she specializes in Romantic Suspense, but also
writes thrillers, comedy, and contemporary romances.

Award winning author Kathy L Wheeler loves travel, fantasy
football, NBA and musical theatre. As an avid reader of romance and patron of
the theatre, her main sources of inspiration come mostly from an over-active
imagination. Kathy writes contemporary and historical romance, from sweet to
spicy.

L.A. Sartor is a bestselling,
award-winning author. She began telling stories around the age of 4 when her
mother, at L.A.’s insistence, wrote them down and L.A. illustrated them. As an
adult, she writes suspense and action-adventure novels with a dash of romance,
and screenplays—she's had a contracted adaptation!She lives in Colorado with her husband whom she met on a
blind date.L.A. loves to travel
and thinks life is an adventure and we should embrace the journey.

Charity Tahmaseb has slung corn on the cob
for Green Giant and jumped out of airplanes (but not at the same time). She’s
worn both Girl Scout and Army green. These days, she writes fiction (short and
long) and works as a technical writer.

Cynthia Clement is an award winning
author who began writing when she was a teenager. Her novels reflect her love
of romance, strong honorable heroes, and suspense intertwined with the
intriguing and unexplained.

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